@silence7@slrpnk.net to News@lemmy.worldEnglish • 23 days agoThe Story of the Gilded Age Wasn’t Wealth. It Was Corruption. | Richard White, the historian and author of The Republic for Which It Stands, explains what made the late 19th century gilded.www.theatlantic.comexternal-linkmessage-square19fedilinkarrow-up1235arrow-down13
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minus-square@tiramichu@lemm.eelinkfedilink14•edit-223 days agoYep, that’s specifically the meaning :) Golden = Made of gold Gilded = Covered in a thin layer of gold The gold and the thin layer was the 1%-ers, with rampant corruption and harsh conditions for everyone else.
Like a veneer or something
Yep, that’s specifically the meaning :)
Golden = Made of gold
Gilded = Covered in a thin layer of gold
The gold and the thin layer was the 1%-ers, with rampant corruption and harsh conditions for everyone else.